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Beyond Good Enough: Letting Go of Endlessly Striving for More

Beyond Good Enough: Letting Go of Endlessly Striving for More

Guest blog by Sholom— There’s this horizon people seem to be traveling toward. I know I’ve been trying to. A mystical destination just beyond the horizon where things will be bigger, better, safer, warmer, and more enlightened. Many spend their entire...
Learning to Embrace Hope: A Realist’s Unexpected Journey

Learning to Embrace Hope: A Realist’s Unexpected Journey

Guest blog by Sholom— In my years of men’s work, there’s one four-letter word I’ve always carefully avoided. It’s caused me tremendous fear and has made my heart twist into knots. I’ve avoided it because of all it’s connotations and...
What Healing Really Means—and Why It Has Nothing to do With a Cure

What Healing Really Means—and Why It Has Nothing to do With a Cure

Guest blog by James S— What Is Healing? For most of my life, I thought healing meant being cured — waking up one day with no addiction, no unwanted attraction, no struggle. As a child, I remember sensing that something was “wrong” with me, feeling confused, alone, and...
Who Are We Becoming? Identity, Labels, and Sexuality

Who Are We Becoming? Identity, Labels, and Sexuality

Guest blog by Sholom— We spend our whole lives figuring out who we are. Not just once, not just during adolescence, but repeatedly—through relationships, through loss, through who or what we love. Through what we fear. Identity is like a living thing. It shifts,...
The Opposite of Addiction is Not Sobriety—It’s Connection

The Opposite of Addiction is Not Sobriety—It’s Connection

By Rich Wyler, Director, Brothers Road— For years, we’ve been taught to think about addiction primarily in terms of substances or behaviors to stop. Stop drinking. Stop using. Stop acting out. Stop watching. Stop numbing. But addiction experts increasingly agree on...
When the Exotic Becomes Erotic: Why the Unfamiliar Feels So Powerful

When the Exotic Becomes Erotic: Why the Unfamiliar Feels So Powerful

Guest blog by Sholom— Have you ever noticed how the things that feel distant, mysterious, or just outside your reach can also feel strangely magnetic? That’s the essence of a psychological phenomenon often summed up as: the exotic becomes erotic. Curiosity Breeds More...